Origami Wings & Paper Hearts

Chapter 3

-timeskip 2 months-

The 4th great shinobi war was continuous.
And in that time,
The hidden rain had grown in industrialization and had become recognized amongst the other hidden villages for it's sudden growth, it's number of jonin prommoted from their old positions.
And their rise in power as they had wiped out a leading force of zetsu, awarding them with an alliance within the great nations. They had provided ninja tools to enhance current ninja abilities, and had added to the ranks of shinobi, and were the current top producers of kunai and shuriken along with other ninja weapons.
A strong competitor against the hidden Artisans.

Konan had watched it happen before her eyes.
Yahiko become a kage, in a length of only 2 weeks!

2 weeks! 

It was incredible. Even the other kage had to accept it.

The new profound Rinnekage.

The rinne part of kage was in honor of Nagato.
A little too face forward and obvious in Konan's opinion, but she wouldn't voice that in front of Yahiko.

All of it had happened so fast.

And while all the other villages were surprised as such a sudden arrival, they had accepted it. This was war, and it was something they had to take in.

Recently, the hidden rain had dealed with an infiltration of zetsu.
However, thanks to their tight security, they had managed to over blow it.

Yahiko always helped Konan with her abilities.
But he no longer had to train with her nearly as often as before.

Since Amegakure was close to the sound. They had formed an alliance, bringing the sound further into power, and turning them into a more efficient village, putting their abilities to use, in trade for some sound village jutsu. Which became rather useful as they progressed.

Konan had been practicing, and had mastered a signature technique of writing music notes onto her paper, which whenever hit by any shinobi weapon, would continuously play that note in the offenders head. Ranging from temporary lame hearing or deafness to complete insanity.

She had also been working on a new jutsu. One that Yahiko personally had helped her form. One that only she could do.

It was a form of manipulation.
This jutsu.

Konan would open a book, and depending on the context in the book, she would create origami that illustrates the context in the book. She would use fuinjutsu and bookmarks for her books.
Each one, she would illustrate the words with her origami, and could make it happen to her opposed opponent.

She could use a variety of this jutsu, from creating an infectious virus that only affects zetsu and can wipe out an army instantaneously, to directing a book with origami flames to burst into real flames or explode with origami explosion tags, which she preferred over paper bombs, of careful handling when comes of contact.

Konan soon realized that her strong point in jutsu was genjutsu, in which she could write her own story, and transport something into the story plot of the book. All under a genjutsu. The only way it could be broken would be if the book was shredded.

It took time to prepare the origami though, she would spend hours creating origami within her books nights upon nights, writing and folding, nights upon nights.

Yahiko pov-

I paced around my office, pondering on the latest request from the hidden sound.

I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in,"
I said as a hidden stone shinobi entered.

"News from the battle front?"
I asked.

"Yes sir, I've come to report the force of sound ninja you sent was useful. The force wasn't put down in the shinobi ranks but we've come to personally send our appreciation of you quick thinking. They saved our stone ninja from a massive shower of boulders overhead, we were tired and wounded from the zetsu army, the sound shinobi created a force field of pure sound while we escaped."

Yahiko's eyes widened but he didn't say anything.

A sudden force of sound shinobi out of nowhere who saved a force of hidden stone shinobi?

But I haven't ordered the sound to make any moves in the war yet.

I'll just keep quiet for now, play it off. But as soon as they leave, I will be confronting the hidden sound. This is of course a good thing, but it's suspicious.

What are they planning?

"Of course, there is no need to feel in debt. We simply did what any ordinary shinobi would do."

The stone ninja nodded awkwardly and left the office.

Yahiko stormed down from his tower, threw on a cloak, and immediately left to bring this matter to the attention of the sound.

Konan pov-

I felt a suffocating cloth roughly cover my mouth and pull me into a nearby alley way.

I turned around instantly with a kunai in my hand as I confronted the person.

A sound ninja.

I suddenly felt tired. Very tired. I tried to keep my head from nodding but darkness consumed me as a fell forward onto my knees, leaving reality as I fell into sleep.

I woke up who knows how long later.

My head ached and my leg was twitching from a pinched nerve.

I struggled to my feet before being pierced by an electrifying wave of sound.

The high frequency played in my head as I felt something warm trickle from my ear. Blood.

I was a prisoner of the sound.

Our ally.